For decades, as the American economy tilted toward white-collar work, big urban counties thrived. Cities like New York, Boston, Chicago, and San Francisco boomed on the back of fast-growing service ...

Two weeks after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Louisiana’s congressional map, state senators passed a plan Thursday that would eliminate a majority-Black district while giving Republicans a chance ...

Primary elections have started in Louisiana, but votes cast in congressional races may not count as the Republican legislature is redrawing district lines to get one more Republican seat. They are ...

Google engineers have developed a method to compress artificial intelligence (AI) data so that it requires up to six times less working memory to function. With the new system, called TurboQuant, AI ...

A method for identifying representations of concepts in neural networks could provide a more-effective way to control and monitor artificial-intelligence systems. Read the paper: Toward universal ...

HOCKING COUNTY, Ohio — A routine day clearing debris at Hocking Hills State Park turned into a life-threatening ordeal for 32-year-old maintenance worker Philip Pohle. It was an accident so severe ...

Johnny C. Taylor Jr. tackles your workplace questions each week for USA TODAY. Taylor is president and CEO of SHRM, the world's largest trade association of human resources professionals, and author ...

Amazon's retail business is closely tracking how often software engineers use AI and how that influences output, all while navigating resistance from parts of its workforce. An internal document ...

NOAA's aurora viewline for where the northern lights could be visible tonight and tomorrow night has returned. Here is a list of states that could see the northern lights April 21. It's back! NOAA's ...

As we go about our day, the trillions of cells in our bodies run like well-oiled machines: continually sensing what's happening around them and making modifications to keep us humming along. Like ...

Amazon's AI boom is creating a new kind of mess: a growing bloat of internal tools and duplicated data. Some teams are rapidly building their own AI-powered applications to automate workflows and ...

Noah Giansiracusa asks: How nutritious is your social media diet? Containing too much social media 'junk food,' he notes for Science News Explores, can have deleterious effects, and so individuals ...